Welcome to Pajaro Bay, the charming little village on the California coast with its cast of quirky characters and its cottages overlooking the sun-drenched coast.
The Pajaro Bay mystery romance novels have won many awards, including the Romance Writers of America’s prestigious Golden Heart® Award for Romantic Suspense.
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Ben Freitas is the son of Eva, the Pajaro Beach Amusement Park secretary, and Bernie Freitas, who worked as an armored truck guard until he was murdered in a robbery ten years ago. The insurance money from his dad’s death allowed Ben to go to college, where he earned an engineering degree. After college, Ben [...]
Christopher Madrigal is the elder (by two minutes) of the twin Madrigal boys. He was named after his father’s godson, Christopher Takahashi Falcon, but he hasn’t seen his namesake in many years. His eldest brother Kyle had been a high school football player, but Chris’s sport is basketball. Not the tallest one on the squad, [...]
Marisol Serrano is the daughter of deputy Joe Serrano and Maria Ortega Serrano. She is friends with Ria O’Keeffe, Oliver Knight and Jenny O’Keeffe, all of whom are in her class at Pajaro Bay Elementary School. She is eight years old at the time of The Honeymoon Cottage. She wants a dog (like Ria has) [...]
Hallie Reed spent her childhood bouncing from one foster home to another. She learned early on not to feel secure about anything or anyone. No one in her life ever stayed around for long. But she always kept a memory close to her heart of the year she spent with an older couple on a [...]
Jonas Collinwood is the young owner of the Lark & Raven pub on the wharf in Pajaro Bay. He also is the heir of the Collinwood House in the woods above the village. One of the few true Victorian houses in town, Collinwood House is a gray-on-gray mansion that almost seems to disappear into the [...]
